Developers launched China's first Tibetan-language search engine on Monday in Northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Search engine yongzin will serve as a unified portal for all major Tibetan-language websites in China Brendan Langley Jersey , said Tselo, director of the Tibetan Language Work Committee of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai. It will also be a major global source for online information in Tibetan, he said.
Yongzin means "master" or "teacher" in the Tibetan language. The search engine has eight sections for news, websites, images, videos, music Carlos Henderson Jersey , encyclopedia, literature and forums.
"The search engine will meet the growing needs of the Tibetan-speaking population and will facilitate the building of Tibetan digital archives and the expansion of databases in the Tibetan language," he said.
The project, which cost 57 million yuan ($8.7 million), is supported by the central government.
More than 150 people were hired for the project, said Dora, the search engine's technical director and a professor with the Digitization Institute of Tibetan Literature of Northwest University for Nationalities.
People of Tibetan ethnicity make up 80 percent of the team Demarcus Walker Jersey , said Dora.
"Popular search engines such as Yahoo and Google enable searches in Tibetan, but they mainly support searches with single characters," he said. Yongzin enables searches using words and phrases to yield more accurate results, he said.
Yongzin also links to more web resources than its competitors, said Dora. "For example, the news function leads to more than 200 domestic Tibetan-language websites in China," he said.
The search engine is expected to gain around 1.2 million users in its initial stage Garett Bolles Jersey , Dora said.
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Chinese people's enthusiasm for sports has abated after the quadrennial Olympic Games ended, which gives us some time to think about the next pertinent matter: How should sports in China develop in this post-Games period?
Actually, this is not the first time that this post-Games period has been addressed, as pundits and experts had previously tackled the issue of how to develop the sports industry after Beijing held the Games in 2008.
Eight years have passed, and China has changed a great deal since we last discussed this concept.
China's economic strength has been recognized by the world. People from Chinese Olympic cities such as Beijing and Qingdao are enjoying better sporting environments, China's sporting level has improved greatly, the government has paid more attention to encouraging people to take up sport Courtland Sutton Jersey , and most importantly, the sports industry has gradually become part of people's lifestyles along with recreation and health.
People are seeing the benefits of doing sports: making friends, getting healthier and gaining confidence. As a result, they are taking it more seriously than ever before as they realize that preventing disease through exercise is cheaper and more fun compared to taking medicine.
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China's central and local governments have also realized the importance of sports to people's livelihood.
President Xi Jinping has pointed out that, for Chinese sport authorities, ""the basic work is to fully understand the importance of improving people's health level by developing the sports industry.""
Sporting events, such as marathons Bradley Chubb Jersey , have been held by local governments to encourage people to take up sports. Some cities have also begun attempts to reform local sports industries by allowing people to use their health insurance cards to access gyms.
The aim is to get more people involved in exercise, but the reason people join is that it makes them happy.
Happiness is the essence of sport. There has long been a debate about what sport actually is. It turns out that sport is a ""physical action"" carried out with the purpose of being happy.
Happiness has different meanings to different people. It could be getting healthier, or making new friends or simply having fun.
So what is the exact meaning of ""just having fun?"" The answer could be found in your childhood when you told your father, ""I want to play basketball for a while."" It might not be for getting healthier or for making friends, but just for fun.
Regardless of what kind of -happiness it brings, it was reached by doing ""physical action.""
However, the spirit of recreation has now spread into -different industries Matt Paradis Jersey , including sports.
For example, during the Rio Games, Chinese people were less interested in who won the gold medal or set the new world record. Instead, they paid more attention to the funny moments outside the Games.
The quirkier aspects of the Games, such as Chinese traditional cupping, the personality of Fu Yuanhui (the bronze medalist in the women's 100-meter backstroke), and the live streaming of Zhang Jike (silver medalist in the men's table tennis) Derek Wolfe Jersey , characterized the Rio Olympic atmosphere in China.
Compared to the past, the Olympic Games has become a platform for sporting entertainment, where people tend to actively find visual stimulation for fun rather than passively staring at their TVs.
But the passion for this kind of fun will eventually subside after the Rio Games, and the less popular sports that were given a boost by the Games will sink back into obscurity.
While some of these sports are lacking visual stimulation, the Chinese female volleyball team, which won gold at the Rio Games, did find a way to promote itself.
It was reported that almost 70 percent of the Chinese population Chris Harris Jr Jersey , or nearly 1 billion people, watched their gold medal-winning game.
However, according to reports, the monthly salary of many Chinese women volleyball players is less than 5,000 yuan ($749), which is also lower than the salary of many white-collar employees who work in Beijing and Shanghai.